The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-03

live until it was completed. It says that when
Gov. Wilson Lumkin constructed his mansion at
Athens he left one window unfinished, and it SO
remains until to-day
THE husband of Frances Hodgson Burnett is
dark-eyed little oculist who practices his pro-
fession. He is said to have not little talent at
painting. Their house is that of an artist from
basement to attic The novelist and her hus-
band have passion for old weapons and
antique. furniture. pretty bre-a-brac and
Oriental rugs.
SAYS a Washington correspondent: "Mrs.
Cleveland's favorite statesman seems to be Bis
marck, for of all the photographs of distin
guished people, set on the mantel in the bed
room, and scattered around the house, the pho
tographs of Bismarck and Daniel Lamont,
standing side by side get the place of honor.
Perhaps her favorite statesman is not Bismarck,
but Lamont"
A PECULIAR incident of the recent senatorial
fight in New York was a remark of chance
qua1ntance of Mr. Morton. He met Mr.. Morton
in the hotel on Wednesday morning before it
was known that Mr.. Morton had withdrawn.
The morning was bitter cold. and the man CROP
ing for a subject said: Its an unusually cold
day, isn't it, Mr.. Morton9' II don't know, Sir, y
said MIR. Morton, as he turned away.
WALT WHITMAN remembers meeting General
Taylor in New Orleans about forty years ago,
old, rather stout plain man, with a wrinkled
and dark-yellow face, and in ways and manners
the least of conventional ceremony or etiquette
l ever saw; he laughed unrestrainedly at every
thing comical He had great personal resem-
blance to Fenimore Cooper, the novelist"
| THERE is an aesthetic street-car conductor Of
Philadelphia vino for the past two years has
| spent much Of his spare time in making his car
| beautiful. Two handsome silk flags adorn the
nf fhn noW and hn hall 10 ovryff
| lined with knots of ghtly-colored worsted
He takes great pride in this work. The attend
ants at the stables gay he scrubs and airs his car
with all the care of housekeeper: sponge is
| always to be on the car. No man on the
| line keeps his temper better in time of block
ade.
| Two spinster sisters own the land adjoining
| Stewards store on Chambers street, New York.
| Mr. Stewart offered them $75 900 for it. He kept
| raising his original offer from time to time
| until the amount reached $4,000 They posi-
| lively refused to sell, but gave him long ground
| lease at high rental. The land is now said to
be worth three times what Mr.. Stewart first
| offered for it. The great merchant is dead, but
| the the spinsters promise to survive the life OF
the lease and to realize asnug fortune by patient
| waiting.
| ACCORDING to the latest gossip-inyentor, who
poses as "Count Paul Vasli," Pope Leo XIII is
a great money market speculator, and has in
vested largely in Italian loans and British con
soils. He is not avaricious. however, but gives
more freely, perhaps, than any of his predeces
sors, and he lives very plainly. The dowry he
gave to his favorite nephew, the handsome
| Camille Pecci, scarcely $40. 900. and his
| presents to the bride were poor and cheap. Hs
gives large subsidies to the newspapers that sup
port his policy.
THE tomb of an old woman. just discovered
at Chusi, has what must be- if the account i!
not highly coored, the most beautiful piece O
terra Gotta statuary so far known from Etruscar
sources. The figure is woman with the dia
dem OF DIANA minus a crescent who leans or
her left elbow, and seems to have just perusei
her own fair face in mirror and found it al
she wished. She a necklace, armlet
above the elbow. and five rings on the finger
and thumb of the left hand. Her right arm
holds, extended above her head. veil or mantl
| which falls on shoulders and arms She wear
single close fitting robe, fastened at the throa
with a round brooch. Eyes and eyebrows hair
Jewels and ornaments are stained with colors
: The figure is valued at 50, 900.